# 喧

| 喧 | U+55A7, &#21927; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55A7 |
| ← 喦 [U+55A6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 喨 → [U+55A8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

喧 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口十一一 (RJMM), four-corner 6301$_6$, composition ⿰口宣)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 200, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3976
* Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 18
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 662, character 2
* Unihan data for U+55A7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 烜 | *qʰrolʔ, *qʰonʔ |
| 貆 | *qʰoːn, *ɡoːn, *qʰon |
| 峘 | *ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ |
| 狟 | *ɡoːn |
| 絙 | *ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ |
| 荁 | *ɡoːn |
| 宣 | *sqʰon |
| 咺 | *qʰonʔ |
| 暅 | *qʰonʔ |
| 桓 | *ɡʷaːn |
| 洹 | *ɡʷaːn, *ɢʷan |
| 揎 | *sqʰʷan |
| 愃 | *sqʰʷan, *qʰʷanʔ |
| 瑄 | *sqʰʷan |
| 渲 | *sqʰʷans |
| 喧 | *qʰʷan |
| 萱 | *qʰʷan |
| 暄 | *qʰʷan |
| 諠 | *qʰʷan |
| 翧 | *qʰʷan |
| 蝖 | *qʰʷan |
| 垣 | *ɢʷan |
| 楦 | *qʰʷans |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰʷan) : semantic 口 + phonetic 宣 (OC *sqʰon).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xuān (xuan$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun$^1$
* Northern Min (KCR): sṳ́ing
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): soeng$^1$ / syeng$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): soan
* Wu (Northern, Wugniu): $^1$shioe / $^1$shiuon
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xuān
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syuan
*** Wade–Giles: hsüan$^1$
*** Yale: sywān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuan
*** Palladius: сюань (sjuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hyun$^1$
*** Yale: hyūn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hyn$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hün$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hyːn⁵⁵/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sṳ́ing
*** Sinological IPA : /syiŋ⁵⁴/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: soeng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬœŋ⁵³³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: syeng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬyøŋ⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soan
*** Tâi-lô: suan
*** Phofsit Daibuun: soafn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /suan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /suan³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /suan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /suan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /suan⁴⁴/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$shioe
*** MiniDict: shioe$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$xyoe
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕyø⁵³/
** (Northern: Hangzhou)
*** Wugniu: $^1$shiuon
*** MiniDict: shiuon$^平$
*** Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /ɕyõ³³⁴/
* Middle Chinese: xjwon
Rime :
| Character | 喧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 元 (66) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 況袁切 |
| Baxter | xjwon |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hʉɐn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hʷiɐn/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xiuɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /huan/ |
| Li Rong | /xiuɐn/ |
| Wang Li | /xĭwɐn/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /xi̯wɐn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xuān |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hyun$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰar/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷan/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 喧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xuǎn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ xjwon › |
| Old Chinese | /*qʷʰar/ |
| English | clamor, shout |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 喧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14010 |
| Phonetic component | 亘 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 暄 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰʷan/ |
| Notes | 見尉繚子 |

### Definitions

喧
* noisy; uproarious; clamouring

### Compounds

* 作喧
* 喧叫 (xuānjiào)
* 喧哄
* 喧嘩 (xuānhuá)
* 喧噪
* 喧嚷 (xuānrǎng)
* 喧囂 (xuānxiāo)
* 喧天 (xuāntiān)
* 喧擾
* 喧豗 (xuānhuī)
* 喧賓奪主 / 喧宾夺主 (xuānbīnduózhǔ)
* 喧赫
* 喧闐 (xuāntián)
* 喧騰
* 喧鬧 (xuānnào)
* 喧鬨
* 弄喧
* 弄喧搗鬼
* 煩囂喧鬧 / 烦嚣喧闹
* 紛喧
* 蓋喧
* 語笑喧呼
* 語笑喧譁 / 语笑喧哗
* 語笑喧闐 / 语笑喧阗
* 金鼓喧天 (jīngǔxuāntiān)
* 鑼鼓喧天
* 鼓樂喧天

### References

* “Entry #21357”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “喧”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 269.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* noisy; uproarious; clamouring
* lively

#### Readings

* Go-on: こん (kon)
* Kan-on: けん (ken)
* Kun: かまびすしい (kamabisushii, 喧しい)、やかましい (yakamashii, 喧しい)
* Nanori: あつ (atsu)、はる (haru)

#### Compounds

* 喧(けん)嘩(か) (kenka) (諠(けん)譁(か))
* 喧(けん)豗(かい) (kenkai)
* 暄(けん)赫(かく) (kenkaku) (諠(けん)赫(かく), 烜(けん)赫(かく))
* 喧(けん)聒(かつ) (kenkatsu)
* 喧(けん)喧(けん) (kenken)
* 喧(けん)呼(こ) (kenko) (諠(けん)呼(こ))
* 喧(けん)囂(ごう) (kengō) (諠(けん)囂(ごう))
* 喧(けん)轟(ごう) (kengō)
* 喧(けん)啾(しゅう) (kenshū)
* 喧(けん)擾(じょう) (kenjō)
* 喧(けん)静(せい) (kensei)
* 喧(けん)然(ぜん) (kenzen)
* 喧(けん)争(そう) (kensō)
* 喧(けん)噪(そう) (kensō) (諠(けん)譟(そう), 喧(けん)騒(そう))
* 喧(けん)闐(てん) (kenten)
* 喧(けん)伝(でん) (kenden) (諠(けん)伝(でん))
* 喧(けん)呶(ど) (kendo)
* 喧(けん)騰(とう) (kentō)
* 喧(けん)鬧(とう) (kentō) (諠(けん)鬧(とう))
* 喧(けん)呶(どう) (kendō)
* 喧(けん)熱(ねつ) (kennetsu)
* 喧(けん)卑(ぴ) (kenpi)
* 喧(けん)紛(ぷん) (kenpun)
* 赫(かく)喧(けん) (kakuken) (赫(かく)烜(けん), 赫(かく)咺(けん))
* 囂(ごう)諠(けん) (gōken)
* 啾(しゅう)喧(けん) (shūken)
* 紛(ふん)喧(けん) (funken) (紛(ふん)諠(けん))

## Korean
### Hanja

喧 • (hwon) (hangeul 훤, revised hwon, McCune–Reischauer hwŏn)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

喧: Hán Nôm readings: huyên
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